On October 18, 2011, the Communist government of North Korea released a statement praising OWS for facilitating "the working masses’ struggle against capitalism." Added the North Koreans:

"The Occupy Wall St[reet] movement was an eruption of the exploited classes’ pent-up wrath at the exploiters. It was also an expression of the will to remove the stronghold of capitalism as a whole which brings only exploitation, oppression, unemployment and poverty to the popular masses ... [in a] corrupt society where the rich get ever richer and the poor get ever poorer.